Call for Papers in Conservation Biology The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) and the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at Ohio State University are sponsoring a Workshop in Conservation Biology to be held August 11 – 13, 2010 at the Kenya Wildlife Services Training Institute in Naivasha, Kenya.
The sponsors seek submission of papers on original and unpublished research in areas of conservation biology that include population viability analysis (PVA), conservation genetics, reserve design, GIS and remotely sensed data, plant and animal disease, and global change including climate change. In a broad sense, conservation biology is concerned with the problems of conserving genes, populations, and biological communities. Among the key issues involved in the subject are biological invasions, habitat destruction, species persistence, emerging plant and animal disease, and climate change. As the subject has grown, so too have its links with epidemiology, economics, and the management sciences. The biological systems of concern to conservation biology are complex, and improved understanding has required increasingly quantitative approaches, leading to an urgent demand for better and more appropriate mathematical tools. At the heart of conservation biology is the problem of the optimal allocation under rigid economic, sociological , and ecological constraints of scarce parcels of land, wetland, and marine environments needed to preserve extant biological communities and to provide areas for the restoration of ecosystems and reintroduction of locally extinct species. Submissions If you would like to contribute a paper or a poster, please sent title/abstract to Christine Spassione at spass...@dimacs.rutgers.edu no later than June 1, 2010, with an indication of your preference as to oral presentation or presentation as a poster. You will be notified of acceptance of your paper as soon as possible after you submit it. For more information, visit the workshop website at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/WSConsBio/ For questions or more information, see the website or contact Gene Fiorini, Associate Director of DIMACS and Program Coordinator (u...@dimacs.rutgers.edu). The Workshop is organized by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) and the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI), with funding provided by the US National Science Foundation. -- Sadie Jane Ryan, Postdoctoral Associate National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) University of California 735 State Street, Suite 300 Santa Barbara, CA 93101-5504 Phone: 805-892-2520 Fax: 805-892-2510 http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~sjryan/
